"The "time" of Prajapati, or Prajapati’s Time, allowed itself to be laid out spatially in a work of architecture. The time of Shiva flowed into the movement of the limbs of Shiva, the lord of the dance. Works of sculpture and architecture demonstrate, each in its own form, the time of which they are the symbols. The building of the Vedic altar, by the accompanying words of the sacred rite of architecture, is self-explanatory. Symbolically, time—the time of the seasons—was built into the altar. The form of the altar comprised time, conceived, as it were, in terms of space."
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in Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011)
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Stella Kramrisch
Stella Kramrisch (May 29, 1896 – August 31, 1993) was an American pioneering art historian and curator who was the leading specialist on Indian art for most of the 20th century.
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